Sawant: It's time for open combat with the Dem Party establishment

Recall AOC putting off withholding the vote on Pelosi for Speaker to demand Medicare For All, saying that progressives should save such power plays for something more achievable. Well, including a minimum wage hike was one of those issues and again they failed to exercise their power.

Sawant makes the accurate point that it's not about whether AOC or other progressives in Congress are genuine; it's whether their strategy of trying to work with the establishment in their own Party is working or not. And clearly it is not. So it's time to give up that ineffective strategy and declare open combat on them, to start using the power of progressive votes to force issues.

That sort of fight is what we the people want to see. It's what wins elections and what the establishment is doing is exactly what loses them. If only Congressional progressives can accept this obvious fact and do what's necessary. The establishment does not want unity with progressives; they just want to string them along. It's time to call out the obstructers and quit making excuses for them. It's time to openly fight them. Our democracy depends on it.